asked Minister of Agriculture what were the average weekly wages for ordinary agricultural labourers, who had to provide their own food, in each of the counties of England, county by county separately, at the latest date of the present year for which such statistics are available?
The following statement shows the prevailing minimum weekly cash wages for ordinary agricultural labourers in each county in England in November, 1922. A rate per hour is given when wages are usually paid on an hourly basis and no definite number of hours per week is specified:
| Wage. | ||
| County. | s. | d. |
| Bedford | 25 | 0 |
| Berks | 28 | 6 |
| Buckingham | 28 | 6 |
| Cambridge and Isle of Ely | 0 | 6 per hour. |
| Cheshire | 32 | 0 |
| Cornwall | 30 | 0 |
| Cumberland | 30 | 0 |
| Derby | 0 | 7 per hour. |
| Devon | 30 | 0 |
| Dorset | 27 | 0 |
| Durham | 35 | 0 |
| Essex | 0 | 6½ per hour. |
| Gloucester | 25 | 0 |
| Hampshire | 26 | 0 |
| Hereford | 27 | 0 |
| Hertford | 26 | 0 |
| Lincoln— | ||
| Holland | 0 | 7 per hour. |
| Kesteven and Lindsey | 26 | 0 |
| Huntingdon | 25 | 0 |
| Kent | 27 | 0 |
| Lancaster— | ||
| Southern Area | 37 | 6* |
| Northern Area | 37 | 6* |
| Eastern Area | 40 | 0* |
| Leicester— | ||
| Ashby Bosworth | 31 | 6 |
| Leicester | 30 | 0 |
| Loughborough | 30 | 0 |
| Market Harborough | 28 | 0 |
| Melton Mowbray | 30 | 0 |
| Middlesex— | ||
| North | 0 | 7½ per hour. |
| South | 30 | 0 |
| Wage. | |||
| County. | s. | d. | |
| Monmouth | … | 30 | 0 |
| Norfolk | … | 25 | 0 |
| Northants | … | 28 | 0 |
| Northumberland | … | 32 | 0 |
| Nottingham | … | 30 | 0 |
| Oxford | … | 25 | 0 |
| Peterborough, Soke of | … | 28 | 0 |
| Rutland | … | 27 | 0 |
| Salop | … | 28 | 0 |
| Somerset | … | 30 | 0 |
| Stafford | … | 30 | 0 |
| Suffolk | … | 0 | 6 per hour. |
| Surrey | … | 29 | 2 |
| Sussex | … | 27 | 0 |
| Warwick | … | 25 | 0 |
| Wight, Isle of | … | 27 | 0 |
| Westmorland | … | 30 | 0 |
| Wilts | … | 27 | 0 |
| Worcester | … | 0 | 6½ per hour. |
| Yorks— | |||
| East Hiding. | … | 30 | 0 |
| North Riding | … | 30 | 0 |
| West Riding | … | 30 | 0 |
* These rates apply only to teamsmen and stockmen. | |||